Let's have a "Pimp My MobileRead" competition - Page 2

vivaldirules · 11-17-2009, 10:38 AM

I'd love to have all that boring blue stuff replaced by something like this:

And with the occasional dancing llama wandering across the screen randomly:

EDIT: P.S. - Don't you think those colors go together nicely?

I've given you the challenge, now go away, young man, and make it so!

GraceKrispy · 11-18-2009, 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

cotton wool balls

oh, no, thatʻs only my infamous psock ppenguin

This one, however, tastes more like fungus....

This one tastes more like black licorice in fish oil

whereas this one is all sinewy like dried salmon

This one just tastes cheesy

I could go on.. but I wonʻt. You can thank me later.

Oh, and vr, I think thatʻs a lovely idea, but dancing/singing penguins would go *way* better in the random wandering across role.

frabjous · 11-18-2009, 09:08 PM

All right, I'm still working on a llama-theme for VR (--it may require greasemonkey if you really want the llamas to be random--) but here's the first start of a Penguin theme for GraceKrispy.

It features four different Penguin backgrounds, a penguin logo, white and black alternating panels, and best of all, it automatically turns vivaldirules, GeoffC, pshrynk and Donnageddon's avatars into the Abba penguins.

I can tweak it to get the right resolution background if need be.

Here it is:

Code:

@-moz-document domain('mobileread.com') {


/* Sets background image -- it would be better to download this and link locally using file:// .. , attaching it makes it not scroll, delete if you'd rather it scrolled */
body
{
    background: url('http://coolwallpapers.org/wallpapers/0/55/March_of_the_Penguins-016.jpg')   !important;
    background-attachment: fixed !important;


/* Set background and border of table holding main content */
}
.tborder
{
    background: transparent !important;
    border: none !important;
}

/* The menu at the very top of the page */
.top_menu_left a
{
    color: White !important;
    font-family: Georgia !important;
    font-size: 120% !important;
    text-shadow: 3px 3px 3px black, -3px -3px 3px yellow;
}
.top_menu_left a:hover
{
    color: Cyan !important;

}

/* The MR logo replacement -- please download and use locally */
#logo_image {
	height: 0 !important;
	width: 0 !important;
	/* these numbers match the new image's dimensions */
	padding-left: 630px !important;
        padding-right: 0px !important;
	padding-top: 100px !important;
	background: url('http://people.umass.edu/phil335/logo-grace.png') no-repeat !important;
}

/* The menu right under the logo */
.vbmenu_control
{
   opacity: .7;
   font-family: Georgia !important;
   font-size: 100% !important;
   text-shadow: 1px 1px black, -1px -1px black;
}

/* Such a menu item with cursor over it */
.vbmenu_control:hover
{
    opacity: 1 !important;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px black;
    -moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px white, -5px -5px 5px white;
}

/* The page under the menu */
.page
{
    background: transparent !important;
}

/* Roughly half the menu items */
.alt1
{
    font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
    background-color: white !important;
    opacity: 0.85;
}

/* with a cursor over it */
.alt1:hover
{
    -moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px yellow, -5px -5px 5px yellow, 5px -5px 5px yellow, -5px 5px 5px yellow;
    opacity: 1 !important;
}

/* The other half */
.alt2
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
   background-color: black !important;
   color: white !important;
   opacity: 0.65;
}

/* ...with cursor over them */
.alt2:hover
{
 -moz-box-shadow:5px 5px 5px white, -5px -5px 5px white, 5px -5px 5px white, -5px 5px 5px white;
    opacity: 1 !important;
}
.alt2 a
{
   color: LightYellow !important;
}
.tcat
{
   background: transparent !important;
   color: LightGrey !important;
   text-shadow: 6px 6px 8px white, -6px -6px 8px white, 1px 1px black, -1px -1px black, -1px 1px black, 1px -1px black !important; 
}
/* time stamps */
.time
{
  color: cyan !important;
}
/* Emphasized text */
strong
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
   font-size: 120% !important;
}

/* Small text */
.smallfont
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
   font-size: 100% !important;
}

/* Subheadings */
h3
{
   font-family: Georgia !important;
   color: white !important;
   font-size: 140% !important;
   text-shadow: 1px 1px black;
}

/* News item on homepage */
.entry
{
   background-color: Grey !important;
   opacity: .8 !important;
   color: white !important;
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}

/* Paragraphs in news items */
.entry p
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
   text-shadow: 0px 1px 1px black;
}

/* links in news items */
.entry a
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
   color: yellow !important;
}

/* News link with cursor over them */
.entry a:hover
{
  color: DarkRed !important;
  background-color: white !important;
}

/* Quote within news item */
.entry blockquote p
{
   color: PaleGreen !important;
}

/* Comment count under news item */
.foot
{
    background-color: transparent !important;
    opacity: 0.6 !important;
}

/* link in comment count */
.foot a
{
   color: red !important;
   background-color: Gray !important;
}

/* link in comment count with cursor */
.foot a:hover
{
    color: purple !important;
    text-decoration: underline !important;
}

/* Category heading on forum list */
.tcat
{
    font-family: Georgia !important;
    font-size: 120% !important;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;
}

/* Forum name box in forum list */
.alt1Active
{
  opacity: .8 !important;
}

/* Forum name box with cursor over */
.alt1Active:hover
{
  opacity: 1 !important;
  -moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px blue;
}

/* Links in forum name boxes */
.alt1Active a
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}

/* Column heading in tables */
.thead
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
   font-size: 90% !important;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px white;
}

/* Subforum links */
li a
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}

/* Keeps chat window opaque */
#collapseobj_forumhome_chat tr td.alt1
{
   opacity: 1 !important;
}

/* Navigator bar at top of particular forum */
.navbar a
{
    font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
    font-size: 110% !important;
}

/* Actual forum posts */
.vb_postbit
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
   font-size: 110% !important;
}

/* Lists */
ul li
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
   font-size: 110% !important;
}

/* links */
.vb_postbit a
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
    color: LightBlue !important;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px black;
   font-size: 110% !important;
}

.vb_postbit a:hover
{
   color: green !important;
}

/* Quotations within posts */
.vb_postbit div
{
   background-color: Gray !important;
   color: white !important;
   font-size: 90% !important;
   text-shadow: 1px 1px black;
}

/* Option lists, etc., near input boxes */
legend
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}
label
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}


/* New post input box */
textarea
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}


/* Buttons and drop-down lists */
input
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}
select
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}

/* Panel wrapper on post submit page */
.panelsurround
{
   background: transparent !important;
}

/* Post submit panel */
.panel
{
   opacity: .85 !important;
}

/* Options underneath, etc. */
fieldset div
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}

/* Various stuff on other pages */
fieldset table tr td
{
   font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}
#group_description
{
    font-family: 'Trebuchet MS' !important;
}

/* code boxes */
pre.alt2
{
  text-shadow: none !important;
  font-family: monospace !important;
}

/* Avatar swaps */
img[alt="vivaldirules's Avatar"],
img[alt="GeoffC's Avatar"],
img[alt="pshrynk's Avatar"],
img[alt="Donnageddon's Avatar"]
{
	height: 0 !important;
	width: 0 !important;
	padding-left: 121px !important;
        padding-right: 0px !important;
	padding-top: 150px !important;
	background: url('https://www.mobileread.com/forums/picture.php?pictureid=1945&albumid=172&dl=1251587198&thumb=1') no-repeat !important;}

}

/* The stuff below covers the live chat window on bottom of forums page */
@-moz-document url-prefix('https://www.mobileread.com/forums/chat.php') {
body
{
   background: white !important;
   color: black !important;
}
.time
{
   color: purple !important;
}
span[style="font-weight: normal;"]
{
   color: red !important;
}
}

/* Special background when browsing a forum */
@-moz-document url-prefix('https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php') {
body
{
background: url('http://coolwallpapers.org/wallpapers/0/55/March_of_the_Penguins-013.jpg') !important;
background-attachment: fixed !important;
}
}

/* Special background when reading a post */
@-moz-document url-prefix('https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php') {
body
{
background: url('http://coolwallpapers.org/wallpapers/0/55/penguin-10023.jpg') !important;
background-attachment: fixed !important;
}
}


/* Special background when replying to a post */
@-moz-document url-prefix('https://www.mobileread.com/forums/newreply.php') {
body
{
background: url('http://coolwallpapers.org/wallpapers/0/55/Penguin-009.jpg') !important;
background-attachment: fixed !important;
}
}

zelda_pinwheel · 11-18-2009, 09:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frabjous

If you truly wanted the wandering-ins to be "random", you'd probably have to install the GreaseMonkey plug-in as well, but I'm sure it can be done. The rest of it is no sweat. I'd be happy to make a llama and a penguin theme, when I get a chance (and maybe even a penguin-llama theme?)

Quote:

Originally Posted by frabjous

All right, I'm still working on a llama-theme for VR (--it may require greasemonkey if you really want the llamas to be random--) but here's the first start of a Penguin theme for GraceKrispy.

paaa hahaha !!! i KNEW that other post was in the wrong thread ! i love how something actually not surreal at all becomes deceptively nonsensical out of context. it's brilliant. like accidental dada, or something. standing ovation !

Quote:

It features four different Penguin backgrounds, a penguin logo, white and black alternating panels, and best of all, it automatically turns vivaldirules, GeoffC, pshrynk and Donnageddon's avatars into the Abba penguins.

GAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!! RUN AWAY !! RUN AWAY !!!!

frabjous · 11-18-2009, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

paaa hahaha !!! i KNEW that other post was in the wrong thread ! i love how something actually not surreal at all becomes deceptively nonsensical out of context. it's brilliant. like accidental dada, or something. standing ovation !

I was wondering what happened to that post. Sorry. I was up way past my bedtime last night...

zelda_pinwheel · 11-18-2009, 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frabjous

I was wondering what happened to that post. Sorry. I was up way past my bedtime last night...

oh, don't apologise ! that little moment of surreality made my morning (okay, early afternoon, technically). i actually meant to mention it earlier but i got distracted. but seeing your second post go past *without* having mentioned it was actually even better, so now i'm glad.

(seriously, if you read it completely out of context, and try to forget for a second you know what greasemonkey is, it's positively astoundingly surreal. and hilarious).

GraceKrispy · 11-19-2009, 01:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frabjous

All right, I'm still working on a llama-theme for VR (--it may require greasemonkey if you really want the llamas to be random--) but here's the first start of a Penguin theme for GraceKrispy.

It features four different Penguin backgrounds, a penguin logo, white and black alternating panels, and best of all, it automatically turns vivaldirules, GeoffC, pshrynk and Donnageddon's avatars into the Abba penguins.

OMG! that is the BEST part!! ABBA penguins for four of my favorite posters!

you rock!

(I didnʻt understand all those letters in the box though. How can you make this true for the universe of mobileread without me understanding the box?

)

GeoffC · 11-19-2009, 04:59 AM

what

wait

HOW can this be !!!!!

Slite · 11-19-2009, 05:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

OMG! that is the BEST part!! ABBA penguins for four of my favorite posters!

you rock!

(I didnʻt understand all those letters in the box though. How can you make this true for the universe of mobileread without me understanding the box?

)

Actually, I'd like to see a whole Abba-esque theme for the enjoyment of Z

GeoffC · 11-19-2009, 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slite

Actually, I'd like to see a whole Abba-esque theme for the enjoyment of Z

are you NUTS !

do you have a wish for eternal damnation ?

:shudders:

Slite · 11-19-2009, 05:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

are you NUTS !

do you have a wish for eternal damnation ?

:shudders:

Pffft... eternal damnation...

Whats a little eternal damnation to someone who is used to beeing dragged off screaming and whimpering to R'yleh after cursing the Elder Gods?

GeoffC · 11-19-2009, 06:15 AM

the Elders being, amongst others, Odin, Loki, Freyr ?

Slite · 11-19-2009, 06:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

the Elders being, amongst others, Odin, Loki, Freyr ?

We do not speak of the Elder Gods, and we certainly do not name them.

Odin, Loki, Freyr and Thor are wimps compared to the Elder Gods.

(The Elder Gods in this case being the ones dreamed up by H.P. Lovecraft, and they make the old Asagods look like carebears!)

kindlekitten · 11-19-2009, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slite

and they make the old Asagods look like carebears!)

*weeps*

vivaldirules · 11-19-2009, 07:38 AM

OMG!!! Is this what they mean when they say "absolute power corrupts absolutely"? Some people are just too darned clever!

11-17-2009, 10:38 AM	#16
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	I'd love to have all that boring blue stuff replaced by something like this: And with the occasional dancing llama wandering across the screen randomly: EDIT: P.S. - Don't you think those colors go together nicely? I've given you the challenge, now go away, young man, and make it so! Last edited by vivaldirules; 11-17-2009 at 10:43 AM.

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